KrispyKritter:how does defective brake lights lead to searching everyone in a car? i don't know, Bob. i don't know.

That's a good question. Even if they found a reason to arrest one or two of them, it seems unlikely that there could be a reason good enough to strip search everyone. Most of our protections seem to have been reduced to "don't attract any attention in order to avoid violation of your constitutional rights."

Somehow the wires in my mind got crossed between E.U.'s Da Butt and The Who's Eminence Front at some point long ago, and I can't listen to Eminence Front without singing along 'Do it the Butt' in my head every time they sing 'Eminence Front'

An "urban legend" is not the same thing as a "fictional tale" or an "apocryphal anecdote," although many people mistakenly use the term in that sense (e.g., "That's not true; it's just an urban legend!"). A tale is considered to be an urban legend if it circulates widely, is told and re-told with differing details (or exists in multiple versions), and is said to be true. Whether or not the events described in the tale ever actually occurred is irrelevant to its as an urban legend.